Elogio del algoritmo

El presente texto esta estructurado de una manera logica y adecuada para el desarrollo de la asignatura de Matematicas en cualquier Facultad o Escuela de Estudios Economicos y Empresariales.

La estadística está en todas partes: en las calificaciones de la escuela, en las encuestas que aspiran a anticipar un resultado electoral, en el descubrimiento de nuevas partículas elementales. Pero, ¿qué tiene de singular esta disciplina? Stephen M. Stigler propone que la sabiduría estadística se apoya en siete grandes pilares conceptuales que han ido madurando con el paso de los siglos y han contribuido a que hoy sea, por méritos propios, una ciencia versátil y rigurosa. Mediante el recuento de situaciones clave, la presentación de ideas que en su momento fueron revolucionarias y...

A text introductorio, absolutely unpublished, that explains to chemistries, and also to geologists and biologos, like can suitably select the statistical techniques that allow them to obtain the Maxima excellent information from the data of the investigations.

Pedro Nunes played a major part in the discovery of the world by Portuguese mariners. In this book, his mathematical and scientific achievements are described, together with evidence on his life and friends arising from a collection of his Greek and Latin poems, and from religious notes he composed during his later years. An English version of his long-lost Portuguese algebra is included, as well as poems and letters by his friends translated into English for the first time. These discoveries came from a manuscript recently found in the municipal library of Evora, the perfectly preserved...